Archive for June, 2012

MARRYSVILLE, Mich. – District and union officials in Michigan’s St. Clair Intermediate School District have worked out a new merit-based pay system that will give provide higher pay for effective teachers and freeze salaries for poor ones.Read More »

TRENTON, N.J. – Will he or won’t he?That’s what New Jersey’s education reformers are wondering as they await Gov. Chris Christie’s decision about whether or not to sign a new teacher tenure reform bill that recently breezed through the state’s legislature.Read More »

BEL AIR, Md. – Officials at Maryland’s Harford County Public Schools are cutting dozens of teaching positions across the district to finance a $10 million salary increase for older teachers.Read More »

LOS ANGELES – “Pervy” teachers can breathe easier now that the California Teachers Association has killed a proposed law that would have made it easier and less expensive for schools to fire employees charged with sexual misconduct.Read More »

CARSON CITY, Nev. – A union-sponsored proposal to impose a new tax on Nevada businesses, supposedly to increase education funding, is not everything it’s cracked up to be, according to the Committee to Protect Nevada Jobs (CPNJ).Read More »

OAKLAND, Calif. – There’s nothing like government spending money on lobbyists to secure more money from a different level of government. But that’s precisely what Oakland, California schools are poised to do.Read More »

MARSHFIELD, Wis. – In late February of 2011, Marshfield business owner John Nikolai received a troubling email that dragged him into the middle of Wisconsin’s messy fight over collective bargaining privileges for public sector unions.Read More »

CHICAGO – The Chicago Teachers Union was derided earlier this year when the public learned it was demanding a 30% raise for teachers, including 24% in the first year. Given the current economic conditions and financial state of the school district, most people saw the union as out-of-touch and downright nuts.Read More »

BATON ROUGE – Louisiana parents with children in failing public schools will soon be able to force significant changes in those schools through a “parent trigger” petition process approved by the state school board this week.Read More »